AI Engine Runtime Stack - 2025.1 English - UG1304

Your PS applications can call system libraries to access AI Engine registers and load the kernel ELF files.

Bare-Metal

Your application can use the cardano_api.a library to access AI Engine registers. The cardano_api.a library calls aie_control and the AI Engine driver, to access the AI Engine register and device memory.

Figure 1. AI Engine Bare-Metal Runtime Stack

Linux

On Linux, an application can use AI Engine driver APIs or XRT APIs to interact with the AI Engine.

Figure 2. AI Engine Linux Runtime Stack